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Names of Olympic firsts and world record breakers from Days 7-9

As usual, here are more names of Olympic firsts and world record breakers from Days 7-9.

Before I move on any further, I wanted to clarify who’s added into the lists from now on.Firstly, the ‘Firsts’ list now includes names of people who are the first people of their respective countries or, in the case of the United States, racial groups (like African-American, Asian-American etc.) to win an Olympic medal either on its own or in their respective sport(s).Also, names of people who won their first medals in sports (re-)introduced in this Olympics (like rugby sevens and golf) will not be added with the exception that this is the first time a country has ever won an Olympic medal.

WORLD RECORD BREAKERS

Almaz Ayana (Ethiopia) – competed in women’s 10,000m athletics, set a new world record of 29:17.45Kianoush Rostami (Iran) – competed in men’s 85kg weightlifting, set a new world record of 396kg in total lift (the old record of 395kg was also set by him in May of this year (2016))Edward “Ed” Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull & Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain) – competed in men’s team pursuit in cycling, set a new world record of 3:50.265Ryan Murphy (United States) – competed in men’s 4x100m medley relay, individually set a new record of 51.85 in the first legWayde van Niekerk (South Africa) – competed in same event as Kirani James, set a new world recrd of 43.03

With the added clarifications, here the Olympic firsts that I should have added into the last two posts.

* – the kanji for his name is 隼 which means “falcon.”¹
** – the characters/hanzi for her name are 淑净/淑淨 with 淑 meaning “good, pure, virtuous” and 净/淨 meaning “pure, clean.”²

Regarding the polls in the last post, here are the results at the time of this writing:

In the first poll, on the male side, Takuya and Nijat are on joint first with 20% overall. On the female side, Elinorand Lauraare also on joint first (both on this side and overall) with 55% overall.

In the second poll, Leoneis ranked first with 79%. Josuaand Oseaare ranked second and third with 50% and 36% respectively.

On Behind the Name right now are three polls, the first being the one for the male competitors who appeared on this post, the second being the one for the females and the third being the one for the Olympic firsts who didn’t appear in the last two posts. In the female poll for the first poll, with regards to Katie Ledecky, I didn’t include her full first name but since she set another world record in this time period, it does seem fitting to include her again in this female poll with her full first name being first (Kathleen) and Katie included in quotes.